Re: Dividing progress/debug information in pg_standby, and stat before copy

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Date: 2010-01-26T18:33:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> *That* makes pg_standby obsolete, not streaming replication per se.
> Setting standby_mode=on, with a valid restore_command using e.g 'cp' and
> no connection info for walreceiver is more or less the same as using
> pg_standby.

What about deletion of no-longer-needed WALfile copies?

--Josh Berkus